While looking for something else online I came across the Taschen book: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made. It was a limited edition print of 1,000 copies for $1,500.00
"To write his original screenplay, Kubrick embarked on two years of intensive research; with the help of dozens of assistants and an Oxford Napoleon specialist, he amassed an unparalleled trove of research and preproduction material, including approximately 15,000 location scouting photographs and 17,000 slides of Napoleonic imagery. No stone was left unturned in Kubrick's nearly-obsessive quest to uncover every piece of information history had to offer about Napoleon. But alas, Kubrick’s movie was not destined to be: the film studios, first M.G.M. and then United Artists, decided such an undertaking was too risky at a time when historical epics were out of fashion."
I don't think I would have been interested in the script or the scouting of sets. What really caught by eye was that purchasers of the book get access to an online data-base of 17,000 Napoleonic images. This black and white image is the one freebie you can download. I am dying to know what else in in that library!
